Meditate. There's different types of meditation, some are for mental alertness, and others for relaxation. Some knock me out immediately. Try different types, and see what knocks you out, and which wake you up.
Good idea, I've tried meditation in the past and had mixed results.
Also, exercise if you don't already. I used to be a huge insomniac until I started, and now I usually pass out the second my head hits the pillow. Diet can also affect sleep. Put together a pre-sleep routine as well. Routines get you into certain mindsets, so if you always do the same thing, every night, before bed, your mind will get into the mindset of "It's time to sleep now" and you'll get to sleep faster. That's why if there's something I NEED to do, I'll put together a simple routine to do before hand, just for the mindset.
You know you are probably right, I don't exercise on a schedule but I walk about 3 miles per day for work. I also have a treadmill I use at home. My Diet is well what my wife makes me, I generally will forget to eat at all unless she makes me something.
I really should have a pre bed time routine but I don't I spend so much time working/here on poal that between being a family man work and poal I barely have time to regulate anything. Eventually I'll work out a routine it'll just take time to figure out how to work it all out.
Since I started meditation and traing myself to go different durations I look forward to not being able to sleep. I don't look at sleep as sleep time any more. I look at it as meditation and sleep time.
Less sleep means I get to actually think about things. Doing 2 minute meditations multiple times a day and a 15 every now again means being alone with your thoughts is no longer hell. The best part is you don't even need to keep it up. The ability to enjoy time thinking will stick with you for when you need it.
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